Sporting Digest: Swimming

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS (Rome): MEN: 100m butterfly final: 1 R Szukala (Pol) 53.51; 2 L Frolander (Swe) 53.65; 3 D Pankratov (Rus) 53.68; 4 M Milosevic (Croa) 53.84; 5 M Henderson (US) 53.95; 6 F Esposito (Fr) 54.16; 7 A Nesty (Sur) 54.26; 8 D Kalchev (Bul) 54.68. 400m individual medley final: 1 T Dolan (US) 4:12.30 (world record); 2 J Sievinen (Fin) 4:13.29; 3 E Namesnik (US) 4:15.69; 4 C Myden (Can) 4:17.93; 5 M Malinski (Pol) 4:19.48; 6 L Sacchi (It) 4:20.03; 7 P Bryant (Aus) 4:21.38; 8 R Seibt (Ger) 4:22.97. 4 x 200m relay final: 1 Sweden (C Walllin, T Werner, L Frolander, A Holmertz) 07:17.74; 2 Russia (Y Mukhin, V Pyshnenko, D Pankratov, R Tchegolev) 07:18.13; 3 Germany (A Szigat, C Keller, O Lampe, S Zesner) 07:19.10; 4 United States 07:19.54; 5 Australia 07:20.86; 6 Italy 07:22.06; 7 New Zealand 07:25.35; 8 France 07.25.69.

WOMEN: 200m breaststroke final: 1 S Riley (Aus) 2:26.87; 2 Y Yuan (China) 2:27.38; 3 B Becue (Bel) 2:28.85; 4 R Brown (Aus) 2:28.87; 5 D Guohong (Ch) 2:28.93; 6 K Quance (US) 2:29.64, 7 G Cloutier (Can) 2:30.48; 8 H Maehara (Jap) 2:31.03. 200m freestyle final: 1 F van Almsick (Ger) 1:56.78 (world record); 2 Lu Bin (Ch) 1:56.89; 3 C Poll (Costa Rica) 1:57.61; 4 C Teuscher (US) 2:00.18; 5 N Haislett (US) 2:00.30; 6 S O'Neill (Aus) 2:00.62; 7 Le Ying (Ch) 2:00.65; 8 M Jacabsen (Den) 2:01.07.

Synchronised swimming preliminary solo routines: 1 O Sedakova (Rus) 98.920pts; 2 B Dyroen Lancer (US) 98.880; 3 F Okuno (Japan) 98.720; 4 L Alexander (Can) 98.000; 10 K Shacklock (GB) 92.840.